Editorials Archives - Canadian Oil Stocks

Canadian Oil Stocks Offers a Bellweather on how to Invest in Canadian Stocks

March 9, 2017 via CanadianOil

The stock market is full of opportunities for those who know how to find it. Of late, the Canadian oil and energy stocks offer scope for making lucrative gains. These stocks have been characterised by a pattern of abnormally large sell-off followed by recovery, in the last few years.

In January and February this year (2017), many oil stocks endured an abnormally large sell-off to the range of over 20 percent in a month, bringing down the associated indexes with it. The biggest losers include Crescent Point Energy Corp, which shed about 24 percent of its value, and Baytex … Continue Reading

Canada’s Partnership with the Middle East Strengthened

January 27, 2015 via CanadianOil

The trading relationship with Canada and the UAE has been a complex one over the years but recently there have been significant signs that their trading ties will continue to flourish in 2015 and beyond. With Canada recognizing the UAE as a priority market, this particular marketplace has become one of the biggest export markets included in Canada’s ‘Global Markets Action Plan’.

In an interview with oil and gas magazine Pipeline they spoke with Canada’s ambassador to the UAE, Arif Z. Lalani about the current trade relationship between the two countries. With Lalani documenting that the partnership between the … Continue Reading

Oil and Gas Covered Call ETF List

March 31, 2013 via CanadianOil Tagged With: covered call etf, energy etf, etf covered call

Are you thinking of adding exposure to the energy sector through a covered call oil and gas ETF? Covered call writing is an investment strategy that has been around for a long time. It is designed to generate income from a stock by selling a call option against it. You are essentially selling the right to buy the stock at a set price in the future.

For example, if you own 1,000 shares of XYZ Company bought at $10 per share, you can write (sell) a call option contract on those 1,000 shares you own at $12 a share … Continue Reading

Investing in Drilling Companies

January 21, 2013 via CanadianOil Tagged With: gas drilling companies, oil and gas drilling companies, oil drilling companies

When you’re thinking of investing in oilfield services stocks the first segment that comes to mind is that of drilling companies. Buying stocks of fracking companies and drilling companies pretty much offer a lower risk exposure to the energy sector compared to oil and gas producers. Drilling companies operate a fleet of drilling rigs used to punch holes into conventional reservoirs or tight formations that allow the extraction of oil or natural gas.

Many of Canada’s major drilling companies have a history of growth, both internally and through strategic acquisitions. Every year more than 11,000 wells are drilled and completed … Continue Reading

Investing in Fracking Companies

January 7, 2013 via CanadianOil Tagged With: fracking oil, natural gas fracking, Oil fracking, shale fracking, shale gas fracking

The onset of horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracing has been a major driver of unconventional resource development. Fracking is a technique used to release oil and gas from reservoir rock formations by sending water and sand down a well at ultra-high pressure. The pressurized fluid fractures the formation rock creating pathways for trapped oil and gas to get to the well.

The fracking companies have become a large if not the largest part of the oilfield services sector. The shale revolution which started a few years ago has seen the horizontal rig count climb to record levels; more than … Continue Reading

Canadian Dividend Stocks: Senior Oil and Gas Producers

December 30, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: best oil stocks, canadian dividend stocks, canadian oil and gas companies, canadian oil companies, dividend stocks, investing in dividend stocks, oil and gas investments, oil and gas stocks, senior oil stocks, top dividend stocks

We are looking for senior Canadian dividend paying oil and gas companies with production in excess of 100,000 boed. Bigger is not always better because it implies low or no growth in production. However, the senior group has a few advantages compared to intermediate energy companies:

Oil Sands Exposure

The list below includes several stocks which offer a meaningful exposure to Canada’s oil sands. If you’re looking for oil sands companies to invest in, be sure to investigate Suncor Energy, Cenovus, Canadian Natural and Canadian Oil Sands. Suncor for example has more than 25 billion barrels of oil … Continue Reading

Canadian Dividend Paying Bakken Oil Stocks

December 19, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: bakken oil companies, bakken oil field companies, Bakken oil stocks, Canadian oil stocks, dividend paying oil stocks

The Bakken formation stretches over 25,000 square miles beneath North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. According to Continental Resources, the Bakken/Upper Three Forks formations hold an estimated 577 billion barrels of original oil in place. That means a 3.5% recovery factor translates into 20 billion barrels of recoverable light oil. Thanks to Bakken shale oil, North Dakota is on track to become the second highest producing oil state in the US after Texas.

The Bakken formation holds billions of barrels of recoverable light oil.

We are looking for Canadian dividend paying oil and gas companies that derive a substantial percentage … Continue Reading

Oilfield Services Companies with Fluid Handling Solutions

October 5, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: energy services, fluid handling solutions, oilfield services, water handling systems, water management

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fraccing, has revolutionized the oil and gas industry. The process consists of freeing oil and gas from shale rock deposits by injecting water combined with additives under high pressure into the ground. A horizontal well is basically drilled into a geological formation and completed by multi-stage fracturing (fracking) in order to crack open the shale rocks.

This revolution gave birth to a multi-billion dollar market segment in oilfield services for fluid handling and treatment.

Fracking a well involves anywhere from 2 to 6 million gallons water. Prior to completing a well you need to transport … Continue Reading

How to Profit From the Oil Sands Boom with Camp Providers

September 13, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: camp providers, Canadian oil sands, dividend stocks, oilfield services, work camps

Canada’s oil sands are regularly attacked by environmentalists, politicians and movie stars. But whether you like it or not, the 170 billion barrels of oil sands reserves can only be ignored at your own portfolio’s peril.

There’s a lot of money to be made from the oil sands. That’s because there’s a lot of money invested in the sector – $20 billion in 2012 according to CAPP forecasts, up from $19 billion in 2011.

Oil sands companies make a pretty healthy return with oil prices above $60 per barrel WTI. Forecasts are calling for WTI prices to average in the … Continue Reading

Junior Oil Stocks in the Peace River Arch Area

May 31, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: junior oil stocks, peace river arch, peace river arch area, peace river arch producers

The Peace River Arch area is located in Northern Alberta adjacent to the British Columbia border. It enjoys an impressive geologic diversity rewarding energy companies with prolific oil and natural gas production. It is one of the most desirable light oil and natural gas liquids drilling areas in North America due to long reserve lives and wells that can produce for up to 15 to 20 years.

The area is highly competitive and is dominated by key players including Birchcliff Energy Ltd., Crescent Point Energy Corp., Canadian Natural Resources Limited and Shell Canada among others. Production is established from various … Continue Reading

Lower Amaranth Light Oil Play: Best Canadian Oil Stocks

May 26, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: canadian oil companies, lower amaranth formation, lower amaranth oil

The Triassic Lower Amaranth formation (known as the Spearfish in North Dakota) is an unconventional light oil resource play with more than 2 billion barrels of original oil in place (OOIP). Just like the Viking in Saskatchewan or the Cardium in Alberta, the formation has been drilled through vertically numerous times since oil was first discovered in the 1950’s. The play is situated in the north eastern portion of the Williston basin where a fairway of oil charged formation sands runs from Southwestern Manitoba (Waskada and Pierson fields) into North-central North Dakota (Bouttineau county).

The Lower Amaranth is … Continue Reading

Canadian Oil Companies Riding The Boom in New Zealand

May 7, 2012 via CanadianOil Tagged With: new zealand energy, new zealand oil and gas, oil and gas new zealand, tag oil, tsx:tao, tsxv:nz

The kiwi oil and gas industry is ready for lift off and investors can be part of the action thanks to 2 Canadian oil companies offering a large exposure to massive amounts of oil and gas in high impact conventional basins and in highly prospective multiple shale packages. The beauty about New Zealand is its extensive energy infrastructure, its political stability, its attractive fiscal regime and a unique opportunity to develop world-class hydrocarbon resources in multiple underexplored onshore and offshore sedimentary basins.

New Zealand produces about ~55,000 barrels of oil per day exclusively from the Taranaki Basin with current demand … Continue Reading